Will column on climate dangerous

George Will is among the most intelligent writers gracing, or occasionally disgracing, the editorial pages of our best printed media. A worthy successor to William F. Buckley. When good, very good, and when bad, horrid. Good in anti-Trump, baseball, disabilities. Bad when he joins the mental flat-Earthers and Holocaust deniers in rejecting human involvement in climate change.

His April 28 piece bolstering bad science in the name of Freedom of Speech helps no one, and gives credence to the do-nothing plot of big oil, big coal and big citizen dumbness at a time that the tipping point may be past to save our world from colonizing Mars. How much proof does he need? How many reputable experts, in the real sense of the word, does he demand before he recognizes that his original paragraph, blaming “progressives” from carrying a philosophy (in his view a mistaken) of doing good, in the broadest sense, to accusations of violating First Amendment rights by trying to shut off what most reputable authorities believe is misinformation and/or unenlightened self-interest in his ongoing screed.

His column is factually flawed and dangerous if his words lead to more delay in really tough but needed action on the danger our planet faces.